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Alan Rivera

Millbrook Capital Plans Conversion To Family Office

29 May 2012

John Dyson’s New York-based Millbrook Capital is closing MMI Investments, an activist hedge fund which produced solid returns over 15 years, allowing Dyson to focus on his personal investments, according to Hedge Fund Alert.   It is understood that MMI is “on track” to return outside capital by 30 June, at which point Millbrook will operate as a family office for Dyson .  Clay Lifflander, a portfolio manager of MMI, “apparently plans to move on,” the publication said.

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